Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Narayan, * Narayan Aras schrieb: Sophie Gautier wrote: Hmm, I think you are missing something : it is not sure that admins of existing users forums (eg. http://user.services.openoffice.org/fr/forum/index.php) will want to leave OpenOffice.org infrastructure. These forums are intended to

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-18 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Hi, Le 15/12/2010 06:20, Narayan Aras a écrit : Hi Sophie, [...] we have a lot of legacy data, so this is very important to take them in consideration. This is an important knowledge base. Well, I hope Michael is aware of this data and its old format. If the idea is to make is available

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-15 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Michael Wheatland mich...@wheatland.com.au wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Sophie Gautier gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: [...] We will never force anyone to do anything. In my mind, once the Drupal development is complete and implemented then

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-15 Thread Michael Wheatland
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Christian Lohmaier lohmaier+ooofut...@googlemail.com wrote: And yes, you got input from various groups that in part already use drupal for their work and stuff, but still this is hardly the community. If you can suggest more ways to get feedback than the

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-15 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) There is also the question of who would administer a Drupal site. I'm not currently aware of any candidates with the right profile, unless Christian was willing to do it. Administering one of TDF's Web resources requires a lot of technical knowledge and experience. It's not the same as

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-15 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Michael, *, On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Michael Wheatland mich...@wheatland.com.au wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Christian Lohmaier lohmaier+ooofut...@googlemail.com wrote: And yes, you got input from various groups that in part already use drupal for their work and stuff,

Personal Statement (was: Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?)

2010-12-15 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi all, sorry ... I seem to be a bit lost at the moment. To be honest, I neither have the technical competence, nor do I know all the details with regard to our community processes. What I currently perceive is, that there is a discussion covering Silverstripe and Drupal and some decisions /

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-14 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Michael, On 14/12/2010 08:49, Michael Wheatland wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Sophie Gautier gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: There is already forum that exist and they use phpBB technology for some or may be most of them. Drew has the knowledge here. For the French speaking one,

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-14 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Narayan, On 14/12/2010 19:52, Narayan Aras wrote: Hi Sophie, What is wrong in using a new powerful tool that gives many more facilities compared to the old tool? nothing at all, provided every body has the same access the old one provided. Of course, I am not suggesting that users

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-14 Thread Michael Wheatland
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Sophie Gautier gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Narayan, Of course, I am not suggesting that users should be forced to use a tool that does not fit their needs. a small difference here, it's not users but contributors, just a small difference I disagree,

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-14 Thread Sophie Gautier
On 15/12/2010 08:00, Michael Wheatland wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Sophie Gautier gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Narayan, Of course, I am not suggesting that users should be forced to use a tool that does not fit their needs. a small difference here, it's not users but

RE: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-14 Thread Narayan Aras
Hi Sophie, Of course, I am not suggesting that users should be forced to use a tool that does not fit their needs. a small difference here, it's not users but contributors, just a small difference I used the word user to mean readers and contributors. :) Why don't we try out a small

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-13 Thread Michael Wheatland
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Sophie Gautier gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: There is already forum that exist and they use phpBB technology for some or may be most of them. Drew has the knowledge here. For the French speaking one, it will be linked on our support page once the final

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-12 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Narayan, *, On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Narayan Aras narayana...@hotmail.com wrote: [...] It is difficult to believe that both sites are the result of the same product-brief. One of them is clearly not meeting the customer's intrinsic needs. The drupal development should focus about

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-12 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 21:41, Christian Lohmaier lohmaier+ooofut...@googlemail.com wrote: You're a couple of months late. We had that discussion already. and silverstripe does meet all relevant needs. Can SilverStripe or Drupal meet these needs better? I have not seen any study put

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-12 Thread Carlos Jenkins
Hi David, 2010/12/12 David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz If you look at this comparative table [1], SilverStripe actually scores better than Drupal... [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Website/Evaluation_of_CMS_Platforms#Preconditions_to_go_live_with_one_of_the_CMS Look again ;)

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-12 Thread Carlos Jenkins
2010/12/12 Carlos Jenkins hastciber...@gmail.com [OT] Michael, Did you upgrade lately the Drupal modules base? The Image Resize filter is broken, I'm disabling it for now while I check what happened. Kind regards Fixed, was a configuration parameter. Kind regards --

RE: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-12 Thread Narayan Aras
Hi Christian, That there has not been much content on the site surely is not the fault of silverstripe. I'm very disappointed about this as well, but the reason is that almost nobody did provide content to put up on the site. Frankly I don't understand why the site should have almost no

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-12 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi, On 12/12/2010 19:33, Narayan Aras wrote: Hi Christian, That there has not been much content on the site surely is not the fault of silverstripe. I'm very disappointed about this as well, but the reason is that almost nobody did provide content to put up on the site. Frankly I don't

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Sophie Gautier wrote: We are a very very large community and hence have very different needs, QA, l10, docs come at the topf of my mind. Our community is not new, it comes with a past of work and usage. I agree with this. The OpenOffice.org volunteers now employ dozens of tools, see slide

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-12 Thread Michael Wheatland
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Narayan Aras narayana...@hotmail.com wrote: Why does it not have blogs, wiki and forum? (they get filled up by visitors; not content-writers.) A forum and heavily integrated communication and support system is coming with Drupal which will support

RE: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-12 Thread Narayan Aras
Hi Michael, Why does it not have blogs, wiki and forum? (they get filled up by visitors; not content-writers.) A forum and heavily integrated communication and support system is coming with Drupal which will support communication through mailing list, forum and XML. I am not sure how

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-12 Thread Michael Wheatland
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Narayan Aras narayana...@hotmail.com wrote: So, rather than adding features in SilverStripe, it may be better to populate it with static contents. This is what is currently happening with the exception of the download page which is custom coded in Silverstripe.

[libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-11 Thread Narayan Aras
Hi all, Recently David has pointed out that the LibreOffice leadership has not decided anything about the Drupal site. (He cites Steering Committee MoMs that there are no plans to migrate to a Drupal site). Michael on the other hand believes that a Silverstripe site is only temporary (except

Re: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-11 Thread Michael Wheatland
I hope this clears things up for you Narayan, I think you may be getting confused about the project teams (documentation team) choice to use the Drupal site as their development tool. To summarise the official plan for the LibreOffice.org domain: Now: Static HTML (Implemented through GIT) Very

RE: [libreoffice-website] What's the official policy about the LibO website: Drupal or no Drupal?

2010-12-11 Thread Narayan Aras
If you want to see the current state of the Silverstripe site, look at http://www.test.libreoffice.org. I did, and was surprised by lack of progress there. Since it the rapid-deployment system, it should have all contents by now. It should have been hosting the interactive content too.